Margo Hall, first woman principal at Leon High, leaves vibrant legacy
The first female director of Tallahassee’s energetic Latin teacher Margo Hall and Leon High School died on August 1 at the age of 84.
Hall, Godby, Lincoln, Leon and Trinity taught Latin in Catholic and became a director in Leon between 2001-2005. Hall, a live phenomenon, was a source of scolastic inspiration for many times a training award -winning, spouse, mother and a generation Tallahassee.
Margo Hall, a former Latin teacher in Godby, Lincoln and Trinity Catholic, died of August 1, 2025 at the age of 1 August 2025 at the age of 1 August 2025 between 2001-2005.
His youngest son Michael Hall spoke about the inheritance of his mother from his home in California, Tallahassee Democrat and many students who find life lessons in the love of Disciplined but passionate Latin.
“My mother was an action engine,” he said. “He’s always my hero, my idol. He had a mantra he lived and gave.” ‘In any way possible, all the souls you can do, wherever you can do, with everything you can do, wherever you can always do. “
Hall says he doesn’t believe he left this devotion.
Margo Hall was the first female director to work in Leon High School, 2001-2005. He died on August 1, 2025 at the age of 84.
Margaret O’Conner Hall was born in Jacksonville. His mother moved to Chattahoochee with his mother, an anesthesiologist and father, a psychiatrist and surgeon and three younger brothers. Hall went to a Catholic girl school in Louisiana and went to the Barry College in Miami Shores, where he specialized in English, Latin and history, graduated as the president of the class of Summa Cum Laude.
Hall continued to win his master’s degree from Florida State University in Latin and marry a young Air Force Captain. Hall, who moved to four different states and started their families, lived in the life of a loyal wife and mother until the family returned to Tallahassee in 1971.
And then, using “Latin” identity information, Hall to Latin from partial -time teaching, Deputy Director, Deputy Director, Leon County Temporary Executive Director and finally St. John Paul II.
In his first days in Tallahassee, which is always affiliated with his growing family, Hall taught Latin students at Godby High School for 10 years and then at Godby and Lincoln High School. From 1980 to 1994, he became Leon Hight’s full -time Latin teacher and taught at the Trinity Catholic School on the side.
Margo Hall speaks in 2003 at the beginning of Leon High School. Hall died on August 1 at the age of 84.
In 1994, he stayed in Leon to become the dean of the students, and then for the next four years, in 1997, the Deputy Director of Lincoln. Hall returned to Leon High as a director between 2001-2005, and then he worked with the district. He worked as Deputy Director until he retired at John Paul High School.
A colleague and fan of self -attracting self -attracting people to Hall, a colleague and fan: “Margo shines. So much vitality, energy, unable to help enthusiasm. When Margo enters a class, it becomes a more interesting place.”
And praise and responsibilities began to accumulate: elite teacher from Florida, the Educational Committee of States, 1987; Florida Finalist of the Year, Florida Foreign Language Association, 1989; Student Latin Club’s sponsor of Rebus Ghastis. President, Leon District Language Teachers Association. He became the president of Junior League; He was in the Child Justice Council of the Governor; BLESSED Sacrament and St. Tallahassee Garden Club member in Thomas Moore communities; Member of the Board of Directors of the Goodwood Museum; And the Board of the Tallahassee Junior Museum.
When he joined Leon High, his son Michael, who saw him as a Latin teacher, said, “I had to be kept in line, this is true, but his work ethics and working habits were transferred to me.” Maclay School would continue to spend a few years to teach Latin.
Nevertheless, what he remembers the most is Margo’s bright smile, his generous heart and the small details of his life after retiring in 2018: iz To watch his historical fiction swallow was fun. ” “How did he like the beach and travel in the mountains, walk around the old ceramic shops and soft music.”
And he suspects that there are hundreds of old students who can love these things, but who are fascinated by languages and always return their work as a result of a period spent in the early periods.
A rosary service is planned for 23 August 1-1: 30.
This article was initially published in Tallahassee Democrat: Former Leon Director and Latin Teacher Margo Hall 84 died
